page_title: Mont Pinçon
hierarchical_section_title: Mont Pinçon
caption_attribution_description: Installation TDF (TéléDiffusion de France) sur le Mont Pinçon, Calvados, France
context_page_description: Mont Pinçon is the highest point of the department of Calvados, in Normandy, with an elevation of 362 metres. It is in the west of Norman Switzerland about 30 kilometres to the south-west of Caen, near the village of Plessis-Grimoult.
  It was the site of many strategic battles in the Battle of Normandy with the Allied attack in Operation Bluecoat. In 1956, Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française installed a transmitter pylon over 200 metres high, which still serves most of the Basse-Normandie region.
context_section_description: Mont Pinçon is the highest point of the department of Calvados, in Normandy, with an elevation of 362 metres (1,188 ft). It is in the west of Norman Switzerland about 30 kilometres (20 mi) to the south-west of  Caen, near the village of Plessis-Grimoult.
  It was the site of many strategic battles in the Battle of Normandy with the Allied attack in Operation Bluecoat. In 1956, Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF, now TDF) installed a transmitter pylon over 200 metres (660 ft) high, which still serves most of the Basse-Normandie region.
caption: TDF installation
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